He who wants a rose must respect the thorn. (Persian Proverb)
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Mark Twain)
Nicky A lot of holes in the desert, and a lot of problems are buried in those holes. But you gotta do it right. I mean, you gotta have the hole already dug before you show up with a package in the trunk. Otherwise, you're talking about a half-hour to forty-five minutes worth of digging. And who knows who's gonna come along in that time Pretty soon, you gotta dig a few more holes. You could be there all f***in' night. (Casino)
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength. (Henry Ward Beecher)
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. (Benjamin Lee Whorf)
Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance. (George Bernard Shaw)
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August. (Ronnie Shakes)
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. (Emile Zola)
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster. (Clint Eastwood, Jr.)
I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness. (Albert Camus)
I think it every man's indispensable duty to do all the service he can to his country and I see not what difference he puts between himself and his cattle who lives without that thought. (John Locke)
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe. (Anatole France)
Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it. (Walter Frederick Mondale)
Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away. (Cernuda y Bidon Luis Cernuda)
Love is blind friendship closes its eyes. (Unknown)
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. (Terence)
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. (John Powell)
Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life. (Henry David Thoreau)
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. (Vincent Van Gogh)